Morrissey's new album 'a stunning career high' - Irish Independent
by Eamon Carr
by Eamon Carr
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That's a very glib review. It's a good record; certainly not his best.
That is exactly what it is. It is an astounding accomplishment. Anyone who complains about it is surely missing something. I have listened to it a dozen times now and each listen has been more pleasant. Songs like Staircase and Mountjoy are instant classics in his canon. Thank you, Morrissey and band. Thank you.
Bravo King Kong. I wish I wrote this. It's exactly how I feel. "Staircase" is the new "first of the ". Can u imagine the live sing-a- long in Jakarta?
Let me hum a tune from it... Errrr... I can't.
I've listened to World Peace from beginning to end four times now. I cannot say I'm desperate to revisit it again as a whole. Let me hum a tune from it... Errrr... I can't. Rossini once said of Wagner he has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours. World Peace brought that to my mind halfway through track two.
FOUR times and you can't hum a tune from it?
I can't stop every tune from playing in my head constantly, and that was since the second listen (album proper, quite a few of those b-sides took more time to sort the melodies out, but after half a dozen listens I've got them in my head too).
I mean, I think these are some commanding songs and grip me, but to suggest they don't even have a memorable hook among them is to suggest you have a hard time hearing.
Are you seriously telling me there is a melody of the calibre of First Of The Gang To Die, I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris or You Have Killed Me on this album? If you are it is you who needs the hearing test.
Without the bonus tracks the album is a 7. There are at least four disposable songs, maybe more. Stop calling it a "landmark."